Maintenance Worker Charged With The Murder Of 15-Year-Old Girl Who Got Into His Car

INDIANAPOLIS – A maintenance worker accused of killing a 15-year-old girl in October has now been charged with murder.

Tevis Walker, 34, appeared in court Wednesday, where a judge ordered him to be held without bond until trial.

Prosecutors say Walker shot and killed Janiya Carr, 15, on October 28 and left her body in a tree line behind the Carriage House East apartment complex.

A woman who was walking her dog on Nov. 1 found the body of a teenage girl behind an apartment building and called 911.

The body was later identified as Carr. She had a “bullet wound to her right cheek and trauma to the back of her head,” according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by News 8.

Video footage shows Carr leaving her apartment complex around 4 a.m., walking along Newburgh Drive and then getting into Walker’s Kia Sedan.

The car was seen returning to the apartment complex about an hour later, authorities said.

Walker was also caught on camera driving into the grass area where Carr’s body was found. He told police that he didn’t know Carr and was supposed to pick her up to take her to a store where she was going to buy an iPad but she never showed up.

He says he returned back to Newburgh Drive.

Walker was a maintenance worker at her apartment complex.

It’s unclear what led to the killing.